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Bolsonaro government takes aim at Vatican over Amazon meeting

Jan Rocha 20 Feb 2019

New appointments, new policies don’t bode well for Brazilian Amazon

Jenny Gonzales 4 Feb 2019

Amazon soy boom poses urgent existential threat to landless movement

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 20 Dec 2018

Bolsonaro shapes administration: Amazon, indigenous and landless at risk

Sue Branford; Thais Borges; and Mauricio Torres 18 Dec 2018

Pesticides could be painting black howler monkeys yellow in Costa Rica

Mongabay.com 10 Dec 2018

Camera-wielding robot records effects of pesticide on bees’ behavior

Stephanie Parker 21 Nov 2018

Bolsonaro pledges government shakeup, deregulation, Amazon development

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 19 Nov 2018

Merger of Brazil’s agriculture and environment ministries in limbo

Jenny Gonzales 12 Nov 2018

Machine-learning app to fight invasive crop pest in Africa

Stephanie Parker 26 Oct 2018

Jair Bolsonaro: looming threat to the Amazon and global climate?

Jenny Gonzales 18 Oct 2018

‘Predatory agribusiness’ likely to gain more power in Brazil election: report

Ana Magalhães for Repórter Brasil 28 Sep 2018

Connect the dots: Cerrado soy drives inequality to provide EU with chicken

Anna Sophie Gross 19 Sep 2018

Brazilian elections and the environment: where top candidates stand

Jenny Gonzales 17 Sep 2018

Brazil’s pesticide poisoning problem poses global dilemma, say critics

Anna Sophie Gross 27 Aug 2018

Brazilian Amazon oil palm deforestation under control, for now

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 17 May 2018

Brazil’s fundamental pesticide law under attack

Jenny Gonzales 20 Feb 2018

Trumping Colombia’s peace: U.S. drug war threatens fragile accord, forests

Sean Mowbray 5 Feb 2018

‘Decimated’: Germany’s birds disappear as insect abundance plummets 76%

Morgan Erickson-Davis 27 Oct 2017

Philippine palm oil plan ‘equals corruption and land-grabbing,’ critics say

Brad Miller 31 Aug 2017

Ever wondered how much your pet’s diet impacts the environment?

Mike Gaworecki 17 Aug 2017

Rachel Carson: A sensitive soul who changed the way we see — and treat — the world

Leon Kolankiewicz 8 Mar 2017

Trump administration delays listing of rusty patched bumblebee as endangered

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Feb 2017

Rusty patched bumblebee now first bee to be listed as endangered in continental U.S.

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jan 2017

PepsiCo products in Indonesia tainted with worker abuses, report finds

Daniel Pye 23 Jun 2016

To stop the Zika virus from spreading in Brazil, specialists call for an ‘environmental revolution’

Carolina Torres 18 Feb 2016

Focus on breeding sites and biodiversity to control Zika, says leading entomologist

Catharine Watson 15 Feb 2016

Industry wields too much influence over U.S. pesticide regulation, says study

Sean Mowbray 25 Nov 2015

‘Land sparing’ vs. ‘land sharing’: scientists weigh in on how to improve biodiversity on farms

Philip Rothrock 6 Jul 2015

Monarch butterfly population rises a little, but still perilously low

Jeremy Hance 28 Jan 2015

Pesticides harm bumblebees’ ability to forage

Annam Raza 31 Oct 2014

‘Stop using the bloody things’: pesticides linked to bee collapse now blamed for bird declines

Jeremy Hance 15 Jul 2014

More is better: high bee biodiversity boosts crop yields

Jose Hong 12 Jun 2014

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